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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

The Flying "Pongos" - The End

We were also brought on vacation to MiamiFlorida
for sight seeing and to wind down.

MiamiInternationalAirport

Biscayne Bay Hotel, Maimi

Kennedy
Point – The Torch of Friendship Maimi Florida

During this time, in the late 1960s, there
still existed the colour bar in the US. I was refused a room in one of
the motel because of my colour although the hotel management does not say so
directly. There was “Vacancy” sigh
lighted up outside the hotel, but when I went in to check, the manager on duty
said that all the rooms were taken up already.

There were also sign boards like “BLACK ONLY or WHITE ONLY” at some of
the beaches that I visited.

On one occasion, one of the simulator
instructors refused to take me for a lesson, he did not say as such but when I
reported to him, he told me to wait and off he went; after a while, another
instructor came and took his place. This happened in Alabama. In Texas no such thing happened.